Omar Sosa Winter-Spring 2007 Tour Schedule

Including Jakarta, Réunion Island, and Shanghai... plus France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Switzerland and the U.S. For details, please visit www.melodia.com.








January-February 2007





January 19, 2007
Fiestas de San Sebastian
Plaza Santa Eulalia
Palma de Mallorca
SPAIN




February 8, 2007
L'Auditori Moderna
Barcelona
SPAIN
www.auditori.com




February 9, 2007
MJC Brequigny
Rennes
FRANCE
www.mjcbrequigny.com




February 10, 2007
Le Sterenn
Trégunc (Brittany)
FRANCE
www.tregunc.fr




February 17, 2007
Centre de Diffusion et d'Action Culturelle
Nice
FRANCE
www.cedac-nice.com




Drawing by Alessandro Curadi













March 2007




March 2 & 4, 2007
Jakarta International Java Jazz Festival
Jakarta
INDONESIA
www.javajazzfestival.com




March 9, 2007
SF JAZZ Presents
Palace of Fine Arts
San Francisco, CA
U.S.A.
www.sfjazz.org




March 14, 2007
Baluardo della Cittadella
Modena
ITALY
www.baluardodellacittadella.it




March 15, 2007
Teatro Camploy
Verona
ITALY
www.comune.verona.it/teatrocamploy




March 16, 2007
Teatro di Mirano
Mirano
ITALY
www.venetojazz.com




March 17, 2007
Piccolo Regio
Torino
ITALY
www.teatroregio.torino.it




March 18, 2007
Les Docks
Lausanne
SWITZERLAND
www.lesdocks.ch




Photo by Tom Ehrlich













April-May-June 2007




April 14, 2007
Kölner Philharmonie
Cologne
GERMANY
www.koelnmusik.de




April 20, 2007
Cape May Jazz Festival
Cape May, NJ
U.S.A.
www.capemayjazz.com




April 21, 2007
Smithsonian Institution
Washington, DC
U.S.A.
www.si.edu




April 26, 2007
Music Hall
University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI
U.S.A.
www.youthspeakswisconsin.org




April 28, 2007
Da Camera Presents
Cullen Theater
Wortham Theater Center
Houston, TX
U.S.A.
www.dacamera.com




May 5, 2007
Shanghai International Jazz Festival
Jazzy Shanghai
Shanghai
CHINA




May 11 & 12, 2007
Theatre de Plein Air Saint-Gilles
Le Tampon
REUNION ISLAND
www.ilereunion.com/odc




May 19, 2007
Jazz en Luberon
Apt
FRANCE
www.jazzlub.free.fr




May 26, 2007
Festival de las Tres Culturas
Murcia
SPAIN




June 7, 2007
Festival Jazzellerault
Chatellerault
FRANCE
www.jazzellerault.com




June 12 & 13, 2007
Blue Note
New York, NY
U.S.A.
www.bluenote.net




June 14, 2007
Regattabar
Cambridge, MA
U.S.A.
www.regattabarjazz.com




June 15, 2007
Rochester Jazz Festival
Rochester, NY
U.S.A.
www.rochesterjazz.com




Photo by David Garten













"Live ŕ FIP" in Review





To order "Live ŕ FIP" and other Omar Sosa CDs, please visit www.melodia.com.




"The expression 'Afro-Cuban' has become a cliché, and as a result is too easily misapplied. This is one reason why it's vital to check in with Omar Sosa. Throughout this performance he stokes the African and the Cuban fires: Each burns distinctly from the other while illuminating the place between them. It's this place where Sosa pitches his musical camp and works his magic.




This is hardly the first time these pieces have been assembled, but few have arranged them as persuasively as Sosa into pictures so dreamy yet with details so finely chiseled. This concert in Paris, with its mingling of lustrous textures and passionate poetry, bebop flashes and world-music spaciousness sent the audience home feeling good about what they'd heard."




-Downbeat, January 2007





"Spare, melodic lines whispering past on the breeze of a blown kiss. Squat, atonal chord bursts delivered with the lickety-split surprise of a grazing jab. Phrases that rumble in low, then strike lightning. Like fellow Cuban-born pianists Rubén González and Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Omar Sosa prefers the percussive approach. Unlike his latest studio recordings, though - which are characterized by a meditative, poetic cadence - this set, taped in front of a live studio audience at Radio France in Paris, is all about the crescendo.




Fluent in the retrospective pulse of Latin bop and the hummable harmonies of sub-Saharan pop, here Sosa walks the thin line between inventive fusion and cloying smooth jazz. The quintet never trips over into schmaltz, though, thanks to Sosa's sly solos and unwillingness to let the band get stuck in a rhythmic rut. The result is a hook-laden hybrid that even jaundiced purists can enjoy (mostly) guilt free. On a melancholy note, featured conga master and former Afro-Cuban All Star, Miguel 'Angá' Diaz, whose unique, five-drum technique brings a crackle to Sosa's fire, died of a heart attack in August at age 45."




-UTNE Reader, January-February 2007





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